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JWF: Denison University
Granville, Ohio 4/18/69
Owens-Corning Lecture II
MILITARISM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Perhaps the hardest thing tor the older generation
to understand about the student generation is the intensity with
which it perceives the cruelty and insanity of our modern
world. One might have thought that, having grown up in quieter
times, the men who new run this country would be more appalled
by the dangers of the present than the young who never knew
anything else. But that seems not to be the case: time and
continuing turmoil seem to dull the capacity for feeling shock
and, with it, moral indignation. Perhaps also, having known
quieter times, we old folks find it possible to believe that the
current crisis is temporary and transitional, and that, if only
we will forebear and endure, life will return to a kind of
normalcy.

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JWF: Denison University
Granville, Ohio 4/18/69
Owens-Corning Lecture II
MILITARISM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Perhaps the hardest thing tor the older generation
to understand about the student generation is the intensity with
which it perceives the cruelty and insanity of our modern
world. One might have thought that, having grown up in quieter
times, the men who new run this country would be more appalled
by the dangers of the present than the young who never knew
anything else. But that seems not to be the case: time and
continuing turmoil seem to dull the capacity for feeling shock
and, with it, moral indignation. Perhaps also, having known
quieter times, we old folks find it possible to believe that the
current crisis is temporary and transitional, and that, if only
we will forebear and endure, life will return to a kind of
normalcy.